The Nuclear Factor in Global Politics: Myths and Reality
(RIAC) Commemorating the 70-year tragic anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seems appropriate to once again ponder over the role of nuclear weapons in the world, as…
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Kuchins: Washington and Moscow have found areas where they have worked productively together to solve problems
(FP) Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama expressed rare praise for President Vladimir Putin, thanking the Russian leader for his role in securing the Iran nuclear deal and expressing hope…
Kakachia: With Russian troops 40 km from Tbilisi, Russia is our biggest security threat
(Stars & Stripes) Georgia — Georgian Capt. Kakhaber Shpetishvili’s focus in recent years has been the fight in Afghanistan, where he has battled side by side with U.S. Marines. But…
What 18 Focus Groups in the Former USSR Taught us about America’s Image Problems
(Wilson Quarterly) (Co-authored with Jane Zavisca) The United States has a major public relations problem in former Soviet countries. Not only in Russia, but in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and even Ukraine, ordinary people…
Charap: Direct US-Russia diplomatic engagement at a senior level had been the missing piece regarding Ukraine
(FT) The US has started muscling in on the shaky European-brokered peace process in Ukraine as the EU approaches a deadline next month for the extension of its sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s…
Kramer debunked the notion that NATO pledged non-enlargement to Russia
(New Eastern Europe) At the end of 2014 Mikhail Gorbachev wrote that he feared that the global order was now returning to that of the Cold War. “One primary reason,” Gorbachev…
Political Deadlock over Nuclear Disarmament
(RIAC) The Ninth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has opened in New York. Representatives of NPT member nations meet once…
Focal Points in Arms Control
(PIN Points) In the contemporary world of growing complexity where major social, political, and economic shifts are determined by unexpected, cascade, and even catastrophic developments, facilitation of coordination among actors become…
Scared of Putin’s Shadow: In Sanctioning Dugin, Washington Got the Wrong Man
(Foreign Affairs) On March 11, 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department placed a new round of sanctions on 14 figures that Washington considers responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. Until now, sanctions had targeted…
Consequences of a New Cold War
(IISS) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The Ukraine crisis poses vexing policy challenges for Washington. President Barack Obama has sought to strike a balance between the imperative of responding to Russian…